Whitey Bulger mugshot comes down at Savin Hill restaurant after backlash

"A Whitey Bulger mugshot inside a Dorchester restaurant has come down following local criticism and national headlines put Savin Bar and Kitchen in the spotlight. Owner Ken Osherow told The Boston Globe on Wednesday that the mugshot portraits of Whitey Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi were removed from the restaurant on Oct. 27. The pictures, part of renovations the restaurant had received after being featured on Gordon Ramsay's "Secret Service" reality TV show, faced complaints primarily from a neighborhood group who thought the decor choices were insensitive for featuring two mobsters that once wreaked terror on Boston."

"Bulger and Flemmi also had a connection to the block where Savin Bar and Kitchen is now located. Eddie Connors, who ran the bar in the 1970s when it was Bulldog's, was gunned down on Morrissey Boulevard likely by Bulger or Flemmi. "Whitey Bulger traumatized our community and murdered people here and was a drug dealer and hurt people and then fled," said Donna McColgan at an October Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association meeting. "I don't think he should be celebrated anywhere in our community.""

The mugshot portraits of Whitey Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi were removed from Savin Bar and Kitchen on Oct. 27. The images were part of recent renovations following a television feature and prompted complaints from a neighborhood group that called the decor insensitive for highlighting mobsters who terrorized Boston. The location has local ties to a past murder connected to those mobsters, which intensified community objections and led to descriptions of the display as disrespectful. The images were replaced with black-and-white historical photos of Boston buildings to resolve the controversy.

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